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April 15, 2006

PhotoAlbum Security

Hey Again :-)

mmjustlooking raises a very valid question, so I spend my night and morning brainstorming on what security measures and navigator tools we could make in order to keep the photoalbums porn free, and I came up with a lot of ideas that I want your oppinion about.

Also I got a question. Lets say 2 chatters like to change nude photos and wish to keep it private within their own private little album. As long as the public cant see it and these 2 chatters are adults, should we prevent them from doing that? Im talking nude photos, not hardcore porn.

Anyway, this is what I came up with for the navigator photo security system:

PhotoChat and Profile Approval
- Photochat picture is send to approval and navigator will cut it to fit size
- Profile picture is send to approval and navigator will cut it to fit size
- Each Photo have info
    - Users ChatName
    - No. of already rejected photos
- Each Photo have buttons:
    - Approve
    - Reject
    - Choose reason
    - Freeze user
    - Edit and Cut Photo


Rating pictures is send to approval no cutting needed
- Navigator should be able to mark photos
- Each Photo have info
    - Users ChatName
    - No. of rejected photos
- Each Photo have buttons:
    - Approve
    - Reject


There should be a [Offensive] button on the display photo page
- This reports a offensive photo to the navigators
- The navis should get a long list of all photos that was reported as offensive so they can delete them fast
- If a chatter keeps reporting none offensive photos as being offensive, the navi must
have ability to block this user from doing so

Normal photo screening should be a long list of ALL uploaded photos.
We will post them in their albums, but all photos will be screened
- Buttons/functions:
    - Delete photos
    - Quarenteene photos
    - Tag user
    - Freeze user


User Information
A Navigator should be able to unlock a users photoalbums in order to see what is in it.
- Navigator must give a valid reason to do this
- The Reason and Navi info will be logged and checked by chief, to prevent the navi from abusing this


Navis should be able to freeze photo capabilities for a given user so he cant :
- Delete
    - Photos
    - Albums
- Edit
    - Photos
    - Albums
- Upload new photos
- Submit to approval
    - for profile photo
    - for photochat
    - for rating
- Rate other peoples photos


So... What do you think? Write some comments, ask questions, tell me what I'v missed :-)

- DonTron :-))

9 Comments:

  • These navi photo album commands would be very useful. However, being able to swap "nude" pictures I forsee would be abused by certain chatters (serial porn senders).

    andrew_surrey (UK Navi)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 17:29  

  • The only problem I can see with this system is the sheer quantity of photos that will need approval.

    I'm liking the idea of chatters being able to click a single button to report an offensive profile picture though :-D

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 18:09  

  • oops clicked publish a little earlier than I meant to then...

    As for the idea of two adults exchanging nude photos in private, I can see that opening up a whole can of worms - for example can we prove that both chatters are actually old enough? Who decides what old enough is anyway etc. etc.

    In my opinion it's far better to maintain a zero tolerance approach to inappropriate images - let's continue working towards a porn-free chat

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 18:21  

  • I totally agree with Trigg_27 about the nude photos. We can´t be sure that the people are the age they say they are and it will be impossible to chek.

    I also agree that it would be great to have a button to click to report an offensive profile picture.

    I think the idea about unlocking a photoalbum to chek it out is great, if there is a suspicion about porn and so.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 21:42  

  • fantastic ideas you have come up with torben :D
    Chatters already do send adult/porn pics between each other as consenting adults. As they are marked private we have no way of seeing them at the moment, unless one of them decides to complain and sends us the url.
    The ability to view locked albums i would say would be given to certain members of pp (porn patrol) and not all navigators as they have been given special training in dealing with porn.
    How would you be able to tell the difference between an ordinary adult pic and a hardcore porn one, using the amount of skin tone?
    As far as im aware we are supposed to be getting the command for stopping chatters uploading pics to album implimented with .net

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 00:53  

  • Opps, i forgot to also mention about the amount of pics we would have to approve. Any navigator would gladly sit and approve ALL pics if it meant that NO porn was getting onto the chat.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 00:57  

  • I have to agree - We wouldn't be able to stop btwo consenting adults (or minors) exchanging pictures between them if they did it in private and we were never made aware of it because we simply wouldn't know they were doing it..

    I do believe that the ability to see somebody's photo album should be limited to Porn Patrol & First Navigators.

    I like the idea of blocking users from uploading images to their album but again this is a command I feel should be limited to PP & 1sts.

    Navigators should be able to remove pictures from people's photo albums if they are deemed offensive (Again, this should be limited to PP and 1st Navigators).

    I also agree that profile photos as well as photo chat photos should be sent for approval. I'm sure this would not pose a problem and I for one wouldn't mind the extra approvals. By doing this, we would reduce the amount of time we spent logging chatters on PP for bad profile images so it would all balance out :)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 13:20  

  • hi, it´s me once more :-)

    For your Rating pictures is send to approval no cutting needed
    - Navigator should be able to mark photos
    - Each Photo have info
    - Users ChatName
    - No. of rejected photos
    - Each Photo have buttons:
    - Approve
    - Reject

    i miss one button to say "not for public" so it´s easyer to let the nudes be nude and safe all others :-)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 00:25  

  • Do you really think this is safe? eg im a 9 year old child browsing the mum as gone to do cooking the child clicks report in her name and as a load of sribbles the mum gets done for it???

    By Blogger Lil.miss.Loopy aka jckc, at 04:06  

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